Costa Brava

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Secret Costa Brava, Catalonia

01/12/2018 by .
Girona Riverside

I’ve long thought of the Costa Brava as a destination for those 60’s cheap holidays in the sun, mass tourism on a grand scale. And indeed it’s true that Spain encouraged a rash of charter flights and built large faceless hotels in places like the appropriately named Tossa del Mar.

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Golf on the Costa Brava

28/06/2013This entry was posted in Costa Brava, Europe and Middle East, Spain and tagged , on by .
G5 6

September 2008 was quite a special month for the Costa Brava. It was, no less, one hundred years old.  Ferran Agullo wrote an article in the esteemed Catalan newspaper La Veu de Catalunya in September 1908, where he described the ‘rugged coastline’ around Girona as the Costa Brava which is Catalan and Spanish for you know what.

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